OBJECTIVE To determine the location of hyperhidrosis, the accompanying signs and symptoms, and patient anxiety assessed on 2 scales and standardized psychometric instruments. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective study of patients with hyperhidrosis was carried out between September 1, 2001 and June 30, 2003 with a self-administered preoperative questionnaire. The variables studied included the ...

Measuring anxiety in terms of interpersonal relationship is important because of the intricate link between interpersonal relationship anxiety and parent-child relationships. This needs a valid and reliable measure to assess interpersonal relationship anxiety. The Interpersonal Relationship Anxiety Questionnaire (IRAQ) may compose such a measure. The present study was carried out to investigate...

INTRODUCTION Psychiatric disorders, mainly depression and anxiety, are frequently encountered in primary care and are a major cause of distress and disability. Nearly half of cases go unnoticed and among those that are recognised, many do not receive adequate treatment. In France, there is limited research concerning the prevalence, detection and management of these conditions in primary care. ...

OBJECTIVE To study the associations of anxiety and depression with fear of childbirth. DESIGN A cross-sectional questionnaire study. SETTING Prenatal public healthcare in Norway. SAMPLE Pregnant women (n=1642) recruited during November 2008 until April 2010. METHODS Data were collected by a postal questionnaire at pregnancy week 32. Fear of childbirth was measured by the Wijma Delivery ...

INTRODUCTION The Androgen Deficiency in the Aging Male (ADAM) questionnaire is widely used to screen for late-onset hypogonadism. The positive response to the ADAM questionnaire (positive ADAM) has been associated with depression and poorer quality of life in a number of studies. It is unclear whether there is any value of the ADAM questionnaire in psychiatric populations. In this study, we aim...

Since Taylor(6) derived her anxiety questionnaire as a quantitative method for measuring relative drive level among human subjects, a number of studies (e.g., 4, 5» 7) nave appeared employing her questionnaire as a criterion measure of drive level. These studies have characteristically used the questionnaire in the testing of some hypothesis relative to drive and learning. In addition, there ha...

Attachment anxiety (fear of abandonment) is associated with disinhibited eating in adults. Both maternal disinhibited eating and use of emotional feedings strategies are associated with emotional eating in children. On this basis, the current study sought to determine whether attachment anxiety is an underlying maternal characteristic that predicts parental reports of child emotional over-eatin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychometric properties of an observational, carer-completed anxiety screen for aphasic stroke patients. DESIGN Phase 1: A cross-sectional questionnaire design to establish psychometric properties. Phase 2: A randomized longitudinal design with treatment and control to evaluate sensitivity to change and repeatability/reliability. SUBJECTS Phase 1: 111 patient-carer...